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Enterprise features and their Business Central counterparts
Advanced Inventory
Sites, bins, and serial or lot numbers in Advanced Inventory map to Business Central locations, bins and item tracking codes. Business Central goes further, with transfer orders and warehouse documents, but you choose how much of that to switch on.
- ✓Sites to locations
- ✓Bins to bin codes
- ✓Serial and lot numbers to item tracking
- ✓FIFO preference to item costing method
Inventory assemblies
An inventory assembly item and its component list become an item with an Assembly BOM. Builds become assembly orders. When you assemble to order, a sales line can start one too.
- ✓Assembly BOMs
- ✓Assembly orders
- ✓Assemble to order on sales lines
Price levels and price rules
We rebuild price levels and Advanced Pricing rules as sales price lists and line discounts. Each can target one customer, a price group or every customer, with start and end dates.
- ✓Customer price groups
- ✓Price lists with date ranges
- ✓Quantity breaks
Custom fields
Enterprise custom fields have no automatic home. We match each one to a standard field, drop it, or add it through a small AL extension. We list them all and ask which ones you still use.
- ✓Match to standard fields
- ✓Retire unused ones
- ✓Extend only what earns its place
Several company files, one Business Central environment
Many Enterprise users run a separate company file for each legal entity, because one file holds one set of books. Month-end then means exporting each file to Excel and combining them by hand. Staff remove intercompany balances in a spreadsheet.
In Business Central, every legal entity is a company inside the same environment. Users switch between them without signing out and can copy master data from one company to another. Intercompany entries go from one company's journal or document to the partner company's inbox. Consolidation into a group company is a standard feature.
The migration question is sequencing. Moving every file on the same cutover date keeps intercompany balances in step, but it concentrates the risk. Moving one entity first gives the team a rehearsal. The cost is a stretch where intercompany balances cross between the two systems. We lay out both options with the balances involved and you choose.
Inventory valuation: decide before the first item loads
Clean-up worth doing inside Enterprise first
- ✓Run the Verify and Rebuild data utilities, so you check the file before you pull data out.
- ✓Resolve negative inventory. QuickBooks allows selling stock it has not received, and nobody can value negative opening quantities sensibly in the new system.
- ✓Close or cancel stale sales orders and purchase orders, and receive anything that has physically arrived.
- ✓Make inactive the customers, vendors and items with no recent activity, then decide whether they come across at all.
- ✓Count the stock. A physical count on or just before cutover gives opening quantities you can defend.
- ✓Reconcile inventory to the balance sheet, so item-level value matches the inventory asset account.
Moving stock without losing a count
- 1
Stop goods moving
Pick a cutover point after the day's last shipment and before the next receipt. Then no stock sits in transit between the systems.
- 2
Export quantities by site and bin
Quantities on hand come out of Enterprise by site, bin, lot and serial number. Then we check them against the physical count sheet.
- 3
Post opening quantities with cost
Business Central receives the stock through an item journal, one line per item, location and bin. Each line carries the unit cost that makes the total agree with the inventory account.
- 4
Recreate open orders
We enter open sales and purchase orders again as documents. So allocation, picking and receiving carry on the next morning.
- 5
Prove the valuation
We compare the Business Central inventory valuation report with the inventory account and the QuickBooks valuation summary at cutover. All three must agree.
QuickBooks Enterprise migration questions
We already run inventory in QuickBooks Enterprise. Is Business Central overkill?
Sometimes it is. If you have one warehouse, no assemblies and one company, Enterprise may still be enough. A move would buy more setup than you need. The case gets stronger with several locations, assembly or light manufacturing, many entities, or approval workflows an auditor can follow. We will tell you plainly if we think you should stay.
Can Business Central handle our barcode scanning?
Business Central works with scanners that type into a field. Its mobile app can also scan barcodes with a camera. Warehouses that want dedicated scanning workflows usually add an AppSource app built for that. We look at how you scan today and recommend the simplest option that fits.
Do all our company files need to move at the same time?
No. Each file becomes a Business Central company and can go live on its own date. Moving together simplifies intercompany balances; moving in sequence lets one team learn the system before the others. The right answer depends on how much trade happens between your entities.
What about our memorized reports?
Memorized reports do not transfer. Most standard reports have a match in Business Central. Its financial reports rebuild your income statement and balance sheet layouts. For management packs, Excel layouts and Power BI replace the exports many Enterprise users rebuild by hand every month.
Where does our payroll go?
US payroll is not part of standard Business Central. Keep your current provider and post a summary entry into Business Central after each pay run. Import it from a file, or through a connector if the provider has one. Payroll history and year-end forms stay with the provider.
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